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- Record Label: Anti
- Release Date: Jun 28, 2011
- Summary: The Texan folk singer--one of the founding members of The Be Good Tanyas--returns with her fourth studio album, which combines traditional folk with country and rock.
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- Record Label: Anti
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Positive: 8 out of 14
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Mixed: 6 out of 14
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UncutJul 19, 2011Here, the 35-year -old is once again joined by co-producer/multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, who provides settings that ate mostly empty, the better to allow Holland's mystical persona to fully inhabit them, as she sings in an elongated East Texas Drawl that curls like smoke rings. [Aug 2011, p.90]
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Aug 8, 2011Like 2008's The Living And The Dead, Blood leans on judicious electric guitar solos, most often from Shahzad Ismaily, who co-produced the album, but also from Grey Gersten and, on one track, Marc Ribot.
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Dec 19, 2011She's never been more as completely herself on record as she is here.
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Jul 6, 2011Holland sings songs of discombobulation and wonder, and all is mannered but also naturalistic.
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MojoNov 22, 2011Holland's singing identity still shifts disconcertingly. [Aug. 2011, p. 92]
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Aug 8, 2011Recorded in various New York studios, it has a live, intimate feel despite its overdubs.
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Jun 30, 2011On her new album, Pint of Blood – which, lest we forget, is very nearly an armful – Jolie Holland adopts a new, looser working method which isn't entirely to her advantage.
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Positive: 0 out of 1
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Mixed: 1 out of 1
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Jul 15, 2011
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